5/30/2020 Anya van Til Being a mother of three I have seen my kids get hurt innumerous times. As a mother of course I had to help them. I should say that I have become better at this with time as I learned through practice all the do’s and don’ts. In the beginning I panicked just …
3/1/2020 Anya van Til Last night I brought my 12 year old daughter to bed and had to comfort her. She was upset about some critique she got from her brother. Even though the critique was valid, she felt too upset to fall asleep.I had to help her out “It’s not about what someone says”, I …
2/5/2020 Anya van TIl “One of the essential messages of the Buddha is that it’s really important to get to know the experience of dukkha, or dissatisfaction. Not to know it intellectually, not to write a thesis about it, but to get to know it by meeting this experience directly. Until we know dukkha, we …
6/3/2018 Anya van Til I flew this week. Took a plane to Moscow. Family visit combined with administrative issues.The moment I sat in the plane I knew I would film taking off.I used to fly a lot and the comparison between a meditation and taking off has formed itself a long time ago. I visualised …
5/18/2018 Anya van Til In the kanji of Ki (in Rei-ki) you can see the steam of the boiling rice.The Ki, therefore, is the energy that a Reiki practitioner radiates just like steam.We as Reiki practitioners are so called cooking Reiki.But is Reiki the same everywhere? Rice exists in almost every kitchen. It is just …
2/27/2018 Anya van TIl “What do you do with your creativity?”, asked the woman who was reading my toes at a Feet workshop.“My creativity? You mean like singing or drawing?”Hmmm, I had two toddlers at the time and the Feet workshop was an attempt to get away from the Pampers. Says enough, right? This was years …
1/5/2018 Anya van Til According to the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), which made a research on existing learning methodologies, there are 5 universal aspects of development, which we go through in the process of learning something. These are:• Intention• Attention• Repetition• Instruction• Reflection The IONS claims that if you manage to cover all these …
10/26/2017 Anya van Til Aikido and Reiki are the two opposite ways of training in my opinion, which in the end teach you the same:Do not anger,do not worry,be true to yourselfshow compassion to yourself and others.Reiki teaches you to integrate these precepts through a calm meditation.And if something arises you have the choice to …
5/14/2017 Anya Van Til Would you like to study the precepts in a simple way to get a better idea of how Reiki or our True Self is depicted in the precepts? The translation of the precepts used for this purpose is the following: Do not bare anger for anger is an illusionDo not worry, …
12/9/2013 Anya van Til The precepts of the System of Reiki form its basis.They are the material to contemplate upon and to eventually embody. Therefore they provide the intellectual aspect of the System as well as the practical method of how to get an insight into our true nature (reiki).The statements of the precepts are interconnected and …
